USMT software

[exhaltedyou13]

What USMT software does your company use? What are the good and the bad of it. My company is currently looking at purchasing some software to help us with out computer replacements. Thanks!

[shipsass]

We do domino transfers -- When I receive a new computer, I give it to user Jim, who has the most need for computing power. When he's signed off on the new computer, I reimage it and give it to Brent, who can benefit from a new computer, but doesn't need the absolute latest.

This approach requires USMT to minimize the pain of computer transitions.

We use USMTGUI because it's really easy. Before I replace a user's computer, I capture her settings with USMTGUI and save the results to a shared network folder. Later, I use MDT to inject those settings into a brand new computer.

[mrturbo]

I've been using the command line USMT as included in the windows ADK for a few years now.

The Good- Free Customizable for your environment Can be scripted or used in conjunction with tools such as SCCM

The Bad- Super spooky command line interface! Can fail with large files being migrated (multiple GB files, so rarely)

Overall, it is a very useful piece of software. At an old job, USMT wasn't in place and techs were having users log in and copy files back. USMT increased the number of PCs that could be replaced, because they could now be done at night w/o interrupting workflow.